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Drums in the Night (Jones)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  6w, 9m

Bertolt Brecht, Frank Jones

Brecht's play revolves around Anna Balicke, whose lover (Andreas) has left to fight in World War I. The war is now over but Anna and her family have not heard from him for four years. Anna's parents try to convince her that he is dead and that she should forget him and marry a wealthy war-materials manufacturer, Murk.

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Drums in the Night (Jones)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 9m
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  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

The soldier Andreas returns from a prison camp to to find his fiancée Anna just engaged to the prosperous Murk. Against sounds and reports of the Spartacists storming the newspaper offices, Andreas quarrels in a bar with Anna's parents and the now drunken Murk. Lost in the street, he follows the rioting; Anna follows him. In desperation, Andreas leads the (partly drunken) company to the newspaper offices. In the early morning he and Anna meet in the streets. He refuses to return to the fighting and the two go home together. 

Andreas Kragler
Anna Balicke
Karl Balicke, her father
Amalie Balicke, her mother 
Friedrich Murk, her fiance 
Babusch, journalist
Two men
Manke, waiter at the Piccadilly bar
His brother, waiter at Glubb's bar
Glubb, schnaps distiller
A drunk man
bulltrotter, a newspaper seller
A worker
Laar, a peasant
Augusta and Marie, prostitutes 
A maid
A woman selling newspapers 

The Manke brothers are played by the same actor 

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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